{"id":395949,"date":"2026-04-16T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395949\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:20:12","slug":"imperial-oil-reports-oil-salt-water-spill-near-cold-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395949\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Oil reports oil, salt water spill near Cold Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0April 16, 2026 at 1:00PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0April 16, 2026 at 9:51AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">About 843,000 litres of crude bitumen and salt water leaked from an Imperial Oil pipeline in northern Alberta last week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The spill happened on April 9 about 32 kilometres northwest of Cold Lake. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Imperial Oil\u2019s teams responded immediately to stop and contain the leak, spokesperson Lisa Schmidt told CTV News Edmonton on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are sorry this incident has occurred; cleanup and remediation activities are underway. We have trained personnel assessing the site and are continuing to monitor the area,\u201d Schmidt said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both Imperial Oil and the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) are investigating the cause. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The leak consisted of 172,000 litres of crude bitumen and 671,000 litres of salt water. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No impacts to water bodies or wildlife have been reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AER is overseeing the cleanup, which it described as 90-per cent complete on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agency said a wildlife mitigation and management plan is being implemented, which includes deterrents like snow fencing around the perimeter of the leak and bird deterrents. A third-party wildlife biologist has also done an initial wildlife sweep and the area is swept daily. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Imperial Oil says it notified local communities and the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), and representatives from the Cold Lake First Nations visited the site last week.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0April 16, 2026 at 1:00PM EDT Published:\u00a0April 16, 2026 at 9:51AM EDT About 843,000 litres of crude bitumen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-395949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}